Abstract Cutaneous mucormycosis is an emerging fungal infection caused by opportunistic fungi of the phylum Glomeromycota. It is frequent in poorly controlled diabetic patients and individuals with ...

Motor neurons are nerve cells that control our muscles by sending signals from the brain and spinal cord out to the body. In diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), these cells are ...

With the aid of a 3D printer, researchers at Uppsala University have succeeded in creating a model that resembles human nerve tissue. The model, which can be cultured from the patient’s own ...

Trigeminal neuralgia most frequently affects people older than 50, and the condition is more common in women than men. Trigeminal neuralgia is the most common cause of facial pain and is diagnosed in ...

An epidemiological study of cutaneous leishmaniasis using active case finding among elementary school students in Pakdasht, Southeast of Tehran, Iran 2013-2014. J Res Health Sci. (2015) 15:104–8. doi: ...

Immunosuppression is an independent and significant predictor of poor outcomes in patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), according to study results published in Dermatologic Surgery.

At 53, she needed a walker to take a few steps. Even with it, she crashed to the ground. Her left leg was cold, paralyzed, with searing pain ripping through it. She took the opioid painkiller Dilaudid ...

All 120 subjects were Chinese (72 (60%) were male) with a mean age of 41.4 ± 21.3 years (range 18–76), a mean height of 173 cm, a mean weight of 71.1 kg, and a mean BMI of 24.9 ±4.1. Each ...

The contralateral facial nerve used as a transfacial graft requires a period of 9 to 12 months for the axons to migrate through the graft, causing the facial muscles to be paralyzed during this time ...

Figure 1. Male LBN mice exhibited decreased cortical glutamate release probability in the DLS and DMS. (A) Recording schematic for whole-cell patch-clamp experiments in the DMS. (B) Representative ...

Risk factors for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma recurrence, metastasis, and disease-specific death: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Dermatol. 2016;152 (4):419-428. doi:10.1001 ...